The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 79
As for the turnspit, he ran after the chariot, and got so covered with mud that one could hardly see what he was like at all.
Who acts: Fond, one · What happens: run, get, cover, see
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fond, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 turnspit | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 turnspit | det |
| 4 | turnspit | turnspit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turnspit | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 chariot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chariot | det |
| 10 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 covered | advmod |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ran | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 mud | case |
| 17 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 19 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 21 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 covered | advcl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 was | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 was | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 was | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Fond | after the chariot | as the turnspit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past | Fond not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cover | participle | Fond not said here | with mud | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | could | one | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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